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Research questionHow much would targeted direct transfers cost to reduce extreme poverty when recipient information is limited?The cost of reducing poverty depends on how accurately programs can identify poor households and how much support each household requires. Survey-based estimates must account for the information constraints faced by actual transfer programs.
Economics
Statistical Machine Learning
Latest papersRecent research connected to this question, newest first.What Would it Cost to End Extreme Poverty?The analysis uses nationally representative household consumption surveys from 34 countries representing 76% of the world’s poor. It estimates the nominal annual cost of reducing the poverty rate from 13% to 1% through targeted transfers and extrapolates the result globally; the focus is targeted transfers rather than universal basic income.research paper · Sep 2, 2026
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